This latest action by Democrat New York City Mayor Eric Adams is remarkable. Even the leftist media are stunned at the action being taken by Mayor Adams in order to stop illegal aliens from reaching his sanctuary city. The ideological hypocrisy is off the charts.
Mayor Adams has brought a lawsuit [SEE pdf HERE] against the charter bus companies who are transporting the migrants who crossed the southern U.S. border. Adams is relying on a 19th century New York State law that prohibits anyone from assisting in the relocation of a person, to New York, who cannot sustain themselves.
From the lawsuit: “Section 149 of the New York Social Services Law requires that “[a]ny person who knowingly brings, or causes to be brought a needy person from out of state into this state for the purpose of making him a public charge . . . shall be obligated to convey such person out of state or support him at his own expense.”
[Source pdf Link]
(Via CBS New York) – In a stunning and unexpected move to stop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from shipping busloads of asylum seekers to New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has filed a lawsuit against 17 charter bus companies used by the Lone Star State.
He wants the bus companies to reimburse the city for the hundreds of millions of dollars it’s cost to shelter them.
Just call it the Empire State strikes back, with a bold counter punch to Abbott.
“New York City has and will always do our part to manage this humanitarian crisis, but we cannot bear the cost of reckless political ploys from the state of Texas, alone,” Adams said.
[…] The mayor sued the bus companies who, since the spring of 2022, have been used by Abbott to ship asylum seekers to New York, with officials showing them maps, giving them bar-coded bracelets with their destinations clearly marked, and then checked by drivers to make sure they land in the city.
The suit seeks $708 million to compensate the city for the cost of shelter, food and health care.
“These companies have violated state law by not paying the cost of caring for these migrants,” Adams said. (read more)
Lot of naysayers about him but Abbott brought the Border situation into the sunlight…I give him a lot of credit.
Get them the hell out of Texas…soon to be Tejas…to the “Sanctuary” Cities who profess “love and compassion” for the downtrodden but in reality it is a money grab from the Feds for these cities. Now they don’t like being overrun…some of that cash now has to take care of this “problem” and can’t line the pockets of the local politicians. Abbott exposed the con.
Without the bussing…the border issue would have been deep sixed by the MSM.
Abbott is the master of the political stunt. Yes, this particular stunt is brilliant, and I am glad Abbott is using it but it does not negate Abbott being controlled opposition. Both can be true at the same time. I am not a naysayer. I know Abbott is not one of us.
So, the NY Mayor is suing to stop Biden’s busing too or just TX ones?
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What are the names of these charter bus companies and who painted them white, the CIA (like their airplanes)?
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What are the names of the NGO’s processing all the illegal immigrants?
The NGOs should be sued as well under this law. Yes, I am talking about you, Catholic Charities, Lutheran Family Services, American Red Cross…
I take it Mayor Adams is not related to John or John Quincy!
Probably he has never even heard of either of them.
He must’ve went to Harvard; which incidently was founded a hundred and fifty years before the Colonial Adams helped to establish this great Republic, and whose motto was, “Truth for Christ and the Church.”
Must have gone. Not went, unless u were being sarcastic.
The Mayors ancestors picked his fields.
Nope.
Undoubtedly.
However, it’s rumored he was disowned by the Gomez Addams side of the family for being excessively oblivious to that which is IOTTMCO. Relatively speaking.
And to think, NYC elected this eggplant?
We all need to sue Amtrak and Greyhound. These two forms or transport generally cater to low income “financial needy” people. Each time one of these people cross a state line to live elsewhere, the State should sue.
Texas A&M runs Abbott’s busing program out of its warehouse in San Antonio. The State of Texas has delegated disaster recovery to Texas A&M’s Texas Division of Emergency Management.
https://tdem.texas.gov/regions
Adams should be sueing the NGOs who fund this invasion.
They fund it with federal government support: your tax dollars at work. NO NGO whatsoever should receive any government funding, direct or indirect. That amounts to the government forcing you to contribute to a non-governmental charity or non-profit organizationnot of your choosing.
I’ll second that…
It would seem that declaring yourself a sanctuary city is in violation of that law and that it constitutes a moral hazard for the bus companies: it encourages the violation of a law or ethical standard. Perhaps they should counter sue?
Such a typical Democratic move- he doesn’t have the balls to sue Biden and Mayorkus – who caused this disaster -because, as a Democrat, he must ALWAYS be in lockstep, so he goes after a Bus Company? How can anyone look at these clowns and then go to the polls and vote for them (oh, yeah, they don’t got to the polls- they write in two or three ballots and send them in)
The NGOs are the culprits here. We are actually funding them by way of our taxes. A sweeter, more nefarious deal was never made for our own demise.
The list of diseases these people are bringing is YUGE, measles, polio, TB and other respiratory problems, just for starters.
The invasion continues every day with cartels and our politicians getting richer, and we work hard to accomplish cartel and goob’mint goals.
MAGA-nificent!!!
Texas should have such a law…then sue the FEDGOV to enforce it.
Sue the Catholic church
With this NY law, shouldn’t the mayor be held to the same standard for declaring NY City a sanctuary city?
Typical inverted demon crat thinking. The occupant of the WH has by an act of treason. invited a foreign invasion of our nation. The sanctuary cities boasting lawlessness, suffering & death of American innocents, they have caused…………….want to blame and sue the bus companies. Only in America, the laughing stock of the world……………could this satanic, demonic situation exist. We went from a nation under Trump soaring to unprecedented heights in all areas, especially for the most downtrodden…………. to the sewer…………………………… God Help Us.